Different scientific studies showed that agricultural technology adoption have been affected by a number of social, economical, environmental and demographic factors. Even though PSNP program takes a great initiative to distribute rope pump to the program beneficiaries to create irrigation water source so as to improve their livelihood in Lay Gayint Woreda , but factors that can affect adoption of rope pump yet not studied. That is why this study was conducted. The general objective of this study was to identify the major determinants and assess farmers’ perception on rope pump technology among Productive Safety Net Program beneficiaries. Lay Gayint Woreda and Four Kebeles were purposively selected. A total of 159 farmers were randomly selected and interviewed using semi- structured questionnaires. To examine farmers' perception likert scale was used. To define the characteristics of individual rope pump adopters and non-adopters, descriptive statistics such as mean and percentages were employed in the data analysis. To compare the individual rope pump adopter and nonadopter groups, t-test and chi-square analyses were used. Likert scale analysis indicated that sample respondents were praised for positive attributes such as environmental friendliness, short term impact, income diversification, extraction of water from deep ground, suitable for children and women, easy to operate, and easy to transport. On the other hand sample respondents were regarded unfavorable features of labor intensive, inapplicable to fragile soil, inaccessibility of accessories, susceptible to damage, and exposed to theft. The paper used a binary logit model to examine the factors that influence rope pump adoption. The logit regression includes a total of 11 explanatory variables. As a result of logistic regression households who are literate, with more family labor and who have backyard farm were more likely to adopt rope pump. On the other hand households who perceived theft as a risk, with more land holding size and far from the market center were less likely to adopt rope pump. Therefore, these factors need to be considered to increase rate of adoption of rope pump.